BREAKDOWN: Violent Reflexivity – Why Market Movements Are More Aggressive Than Ever, Feat. Corey Hoffstein
How the Fed and the rise of passive investing and volatility strategies have combined to make market movements faster and more severe. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Co...
23 Sep 20201h 10min
BREAKDOWN: Marty Bent on Why Bitcoin and Big Energy Are Unlikely Allies
Bitcoin mining can help big energy companies produce more efficiently, increasing American energy independence in the process. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Today on ...
22 Sep 202036min
BREAKDOWN: The FinCEN Files Show Banks Don’t Actually Care About Stopping Money Laundering
The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bit...
21 Sep 202023min
BREAKDOWN: Lyn Alden’s Latest – Why Currency Devaluation Is Inevitable
This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” reading is from macro analyst Lyn Alden and focuses on the inflation vs. deflation debate in historical context. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and N...
20 Sep 202037min
SOB: How Does Kraken's New Crypto Bank Work?
This week Kraken Financial became the first crypto company to receive a banking charter under Wyoming's Special Purpose Depository Institution statute. On this Speaking of Bitcoin episode, Join CEO Da...
20 Sep 202030min
RESEARCH: The ‘Hot Swap’ Plan to Switch Ethereum to Proof-of-Stake Explained
The highly-anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0 is expected to have little to no impact on users and decentralized applications (dapps) currently operating on Ethereum. But in the years after its launch...
19 Sep 202038min
BREAKDOWN: Why the First US Crypto Bank Is a Big Deal
Kraken became the first crypto exchange to win a U.S. banking license this week. Here’s why that matters. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. On this edition of The Breakdo...
19 Sep 202014min
BREAKDOWN: 'I Didn't Buy It to Sell It. Ever.' MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor on His $425M Bitcoin Bet
The CEO of publicly traded MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares why he started to feel like he was “sitting on a 500-lb block of ice” and how he came to bitcoin as a solution. This episode is sponsored by Cryp...
18 Sep 20201h 21min
